Word: shading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which has sent a man into Kentucky to try to get the labor leaders to rescind their endorsement. Then there is the Negro problem: in 1948 Happy's newspaper, the Woodford Sun, endorsed Strom Thurmond for the presidency. Happy blames his editor for the endorsement and invokes the shade of Jackie Robinson ("I put him in business") with every Negro he meets. But the Dixiecrat label sticks, and the Negro voters are far from Happy...
Diplomatic Miracle. Since the Tories returned to power in 1951, Eden's stature has grown steadily. He is not a man of power by instinct or by character, and for too long he has lived in the shade of the great Churchillian oak. Eden has had to conquer a painful shyness and a distaste for the rough and tumble of Tory politics. After a typical Eden speech, delivered with its customary earnestness. Winston Churchill once grumped: "My God, he used every cliché in the English language except 'God is love' and 'Gentlemen will please adjust...
Heavy construction was running at a rate 60% above the 1954 mark and 3% above 1953. In Washington Housing Administrator Albert Cole told a House subcommittee that 1,300,000 housing units would probably be built this year, just a shade fewer than the 1950 record...
...standing there, pretty as a pear. "Kerstin!" he says. She turns toward hirn with a yielding look, and he takes her in his arms. "Goran," she murmurs dreamily. "Don't forget me!" Without a word he carries her to the shore, where they lie in a sun-spangled shade. "Kerstin," he asks gravely, apparently unaware that the camera is gawking under his armpit at the girl. "Do you know what this means...
...Head, by Hamilton Basso, a successful New York lawyer is forced by a legal complication to return to his Southern home town for the first time in 15 years. So home he goes, dipping back into his stucco and magnolia origins, reappraising his whole adult life, and raising the shades of youthful loves before finally drawing the shade upon his past...